Description: An introduction to Gower and his work, focusing on his sources, historical context and literary tradition; special attention is paid to Confessio Amantis.
Brief description: Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020).
Review Quotes: A place to begin work on this poet, to consider and reconsider his considerable achievement - processes which are facilitated by the helpful chronology of Gower criticism appended to this book.-- "NOTES & QUERIES"